how to make your research more visible

publication strategy and ethical aspects

Damien Belvèze
damien.belveze@univ-rennes.fr

Université de Rennes

2024-12-04

a toot posted in Mastodon by a researcher asking where she should publish her paper on analysis of Twitter data to explore the science reform community structure

where should I publish

  • rejection rate
  • nepotistic journals
  • bibliodiversity
  • open science standards

editorial bias and nepotistic reviews

“nepotistic or self promotion journals”

  • when the most prolific authors are also part of the editorial board
  • when you have kins or team mates in the editorial board

editor-in chief and 6 other board members work for him they authored together 44% of the published papers (2021) 📓 Scanff et al. (2021)

what’s the point of registering a study

  • increase transparency
  • get feedback from the design of the study
  • reduce data or hypothesis manipulation risks (harking)

Where to register a study

Prospero for biology and Health Sciences

Zenodo for every discipline

OSF for every discipline

journal finders

Bison built upon DOAJ and OpenCites :::{.incremental} - Bison

You have just finished the manuscript of your paper. To which journals will you submit it ?

  • you do not have money to pay Article Processes Charges

  • your paper should be accessible to all without embargo once published

should you deposit a preprint version of your work ?

should you deposit a preprint version of your work ?

  • is it possible to have a paper published in the Bone & Joint Journal after having deposited it on BioRXiv?

  • is it possible to have a paper published in the ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics after having deposited it on SSRN (owned by Elsevier)?

  • is it possible to have a paper published in the journal Physical Review Fluids after having deposited in an institutionnal preprint server?

SherpaRomeo gives you the answer

should you deposit a preprint version of your work ?

is it possible to have a paper published in the Bone & Joint Journal after having deposited it on BioRXiv?

  • No, this journal does not publish papers whose submitted version can be found in any preprint server

is it possible to have a paper published in the ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics after having deposited it on SSRN (owned by Elsevier)?

  • only non-for-profit preprint servers are accepted by the journal’s policy. Elsevier is a for profit company.

is it possible to have a paper published in the journal Physical Review Fluids after having deposited in an institutionnal preprint server?

  • any preprint server will be accepted

Plan S : make scientific output immediately available

  • green open access with retention right strategy
  • gold open access
  • diamond open access

Green Open Access

traditional way of publishing

  • inflation of subscription costs
  • 2012, Tim Gowers : “The cost of knowledge”
  • embargo periods

2023 Total expenses :

  • 1 496 848 €
  • about 1000 euros by researcher
  • average annual increase of subscription costs : 1-2 %
  • Deal cancellations : Springer (in 2018)
  • subscription fee for Science Direct only : 406 232 €

Green Open Access with embargoes

Loi pour une République Numérique (article 30) (journal articles published with 50% by public funds)

  • STEM: 6 months
  • SHS: 12 months

Gold Open Access

  • immediately open access
  • Gold should be more than “APC”
  • hybrid Open Access

Licences

Retention right strategy

  • attribution of a CC-by licence to the submitted paper.

  • usually followed by an explanatory letter to the publisher

  • Some of them negociate for an extra-fee (Article Development Charges)

Gold OA

When Gold means “a lot of money to pay as APC”

which way of publishing is possible / recommended

  • Journal checker tool

  • research funded by ANR, supported by University of Rennes, publication opportunity : American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

  • research funded by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, made in University of Melbourne, publication opportunity : Human heredity (Karger)

  • research funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations, supported by University Alassane Ouattara, publication opportunity : Games and Culture

The three pillars of Open Science

  • Publications
  • Data management
  • Source Code

Your CV HAL must contain all your work! (not only your publications)

persistent identifiers for researchers

Why should you have an ORCID?

  • international standard
  • get credited for all the works you have published
  • pivot identifier with commercial (WOSID, ScopusID) or institutional identifiers (idHAL, idref)
  • for administration, make easier to link grants, publications, source code, datasets to a single researcher
  • higher adoption rate in STEM than in SHS

other things you may consider to do in order to be more visible

  • managing you Google Scholar profile
  • creating accounts on social networks (Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky ?)
  • creating a static website to share your thoughts and showcase the diversity of your works

Bibliography

Scanff, A., Naudet, F., Cristea, I. A., Moher, D., Bishop, D. V. M., & Locher, C. (2021). A survey of biomedical journals to detect editorial bias and nepotistic behavior. PLOS Biology, 19(11), e3001133. https://doi.org/gnk8b8